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I am a stay at home mom with four wonderful kids. I have been married for over 10 years to my best friend. I am head over heels in love with him. He always supports my crazy "thrifty adventures". We have a lot of fun together.

I was raised on a small dairy farm. Where I learned very young, the value of hard work and how to be thrifty in all areas of life. Growing up our meals were made from scratch. Only on special occasion would we get name brand cereal, chips, or any other fancy treats. Now that I am a Mom with my own budget, the basic foods always comes first. I too make most of our meals from scratch and take pride in feeding my family a well balanced healthy diet.

I enjoy seeing how far I can make our budget stretch, and when I take the time to match sales with coupons I am able to get all those "fun & fancy" items that would other wise be out of my budget. Being thrifty has always been a way of life for me, but it has also become a real joy.

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Speed up your Computer Giveaway!

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We are pleased to bring you this A Thrifty Mom Giveaway from iolo’s System Mechanic. They contacted us back in the spring and asked if I wanted to try their product out. I agreed and installed it on my wife’s laptop. This laptop computer is kind of old and it is VERY slow. Poor Sarah always got frustrated trying to enter her post on the site when the computer would freeze and lock up. All of her hard work would get lost and she would have to restart the computer. I tried just about everything on it, from free virus scanners to paid name brand security products. Nothing worked! Till Allison from iolo contacted us. I installed it back in April and Sarah has been thrilled. No crashes, no laggy computer trying to load something or freezing on her while she is trying to by the Thrifty Mom.

Sarah’s old laptop used to run the cooling fan at high speeds and seemed to get hot, because there was so many different problems running at the same time. Since I installed this its been quite as can be. Its fast, and never lags, or freezes. We almost forget its even there, as it cleans and speeds up the computer while its on and she is away with the kids.

So Here’s the giveaway:

5 winners will get one download for up to 3 different computers!

Normal price is $49 to purchase!

Free for 5 lucky A Thrifty Mom readers

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Now I was hesitant to install just any old program. I did my research on the company before I used the product. So these are some of the awards I found for iolo’s System Mechanic:

  • Best Buy – Consumer Digest
  • Cool Tools 5 stars - Network World
  • Editor’s Choice – Laptop Magazine
  • Editor’s Choice – PC Magazine
  • Editor’s Choice – CNET
  • Top 10 software products – CNET
  • Editor’s Pick – ZDNet
  • Editor’s Choice – PC World
  • 5-Stars - Download.com

    • ABOUT SYSTEM MECHANIC
    System Mechanic, the #1 best selling PC tune-up product according to NPD Reports, is a comprehensive utility suite designed to keep computers in peak operating condition. The software combines over 40 robust tools in an integrated console designed to make it easy to fix, speed-up, and maintain PCs. Patent-pending ActiveCare™ technology proactively keeps computers operating at maximum performance by performing repairs and optimizations when the system is on but not being used, never interrupting the owner.
    iolo technologies has been at the helm of the PC tune-up industry for 10 years now. During those 10 years and in eight versions, System Mechanic was repeatedly first-to-market with new features and technical innovations. In 2002 it was officially endorsed by the Microsoft Designed for Windows XP Logo program. In 2006 it became one of the very first software programs to have Windows Vista compatibility and in 2008 it leads the industry with its 64-bit compatibility. Going well beyond so-called “registry cleaners”, System Mechanic includes a comprehensive solution with more than 40 different advanced PC tune-up tools that fix computer problems, restore like-new performance, and maintain overall ongoing reliability. The software is suitable for both PC novices and experts alike.

Rules:
This giveaway will end Sat Sept 5th , 2009 at 10pm mtn. In order to win, you
must provide your name, Anonymous comments will be deleted. I will be
notifying the winner by email, and in a post on my blog. The winner
will be chosen at random. The winner will have 48 hours to respond to
me with their name and address. (and no your email will not be sent to
be used to send spam to by us or anyone else, I hate spam as much as
the next)If this information is not received within 48 hours a new
winner will be chosen.

August 30th, 2009 | Category: ATM Giveaway

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